Art and Architecture
Collection of the most beautiful Parisian frontshops in the 19th century
Superb collection of 50 contemporary hand-coloured etchings
showing the shopfronts and the interiors of the most beautiful Parisian shops
at the beginning of the 19th cenutry.
Collection des Maisons de commerce de Paris les mieux décorées.
Paris, rue St Avoye, n°51, 1806-1828.
Folio [384 x 260 mm] (1) l. with handwritten title and 50 numbered etchings. Preserved in its pink original cased binding, flat spine, uncut. Light discolouration on the cover.
A superb collection of 50 etchings showing the shopfronts and the interiors of the most beautiful Parisian shops at the beginning of the 19th century.
(cf. the reissue of this series by H. Lefuel in 1925 under the title Boutiques Parisiennes du Premier Empire).
The complete collection would gather 69 plates, published separately from 1806 to 1828, but no complete collection is known. They were engraved and published by Jean-Marie Mixelle (1758-1839).
All the plates were finely contemporary hand-coloured.
Among the shopfronts represented, there are : la Boutique de Mr. Lescot Pharmacien, rue de Grammont ; la Boutique de Mr. Danlos Boucher, rue du Faubourg St Denis ; la Boutique de Mr. Teissier Parfumeur, rue de la Loi ; Boutique de Mr. Dagoty, Boulevard Poissonniere ; Boutique de Mr. Bertin Md. De Modes rue de la Loi ; Boutique de Mr. Nitot Bijoutier Joaillier de S. M. l’Impératrice Place du Carouzel ; Boutique de Mr. Commirey Md. Chapelier rue St. Honoré ; Boutique de Mr. Jollivet Md. Papetier rue de Bussi ; Boutique de Mr. Lourcet, Md. d’Etoffes, rue de Bussi ; Entrée du Magazin de Mlle. Lebeuf Mde. de nouveautés, rue des Petits Champs ; Boutique de Mr. Marais Herboriste rue neuve Egalité ; Magazin de Musique de Mr. Boieldieu, rue de la Loi ; Boutique de Mr. Gaultier Orfèvre rue du Bacq ; Boutique de Mr. Sallart Md. Bonnetier au Reveil matin, Rue de la Verrerie ; Boutiques exécutées Rue des Fossés St Germain des Prés par Mr. Nepveux Architecte ; Bureau de Loterie Rue de Grenelle ; Boutique de Mr. Emerie Limonadier Boulevard du Temple ; Café Tessé tenu par M. Larue Quai Voltaire ; Salle à manger exécutée dans la maison de Mr. B. ; Façade de la boutique de Mr. Dufau pharmacien, rue du Mont-blanc ; Salle à manger du Palais Impérial de St Cloud ; Boutique de Mr. Taillebosq Md. Linger rue St Denis ; Cabinet de toilette de Madame de M… ; Boutique de Mr. Massa Sculpteur en Plâtre Boulevard des filles du Calvaire ; Intérieur du Café Montesquieu tenu par M. Warée au coin des Rues des Bons enfans et Montesquieu ; Boutique de Mr. Masson Ferblantier Lampiste rue de la Michaudière ; Boutique de Mr. Fargeon, Parfumeur de S.M. l’Impératrice Reine et de Son A.I. Madame Mère ; Boucherie tenue par Mr. Schuler Rue Turenne ; Bibliothèque exécutée dans la Maison de Mr. de M… ; Façade de Boutique Rue Helvetius ; Salle de Bain exécutée dans la maison de M. ; Chapelle de la Vierge de l’église St Benoist ; Chambre à Coucher de 
Mr. L.M.M. ; Boutique de Mr. Malezieux Tapissier, rue St Avoye ; Café du Caveau Palais Royal ; Boutique de Mr. Langlois Pharmacien, rue du Temple ; Salle à manger exécutée dans la Maison de Mr. V. ; Boutique de Mr. Métral Horloger, rue St Avoye ; Façade de l’Orchestre élevé dans le Jardin des Thuilleries, pour le Concert donné le 2 Avril 1810, à l’occasion du Mariage de sa Majesté Napoléon le Grand, avec Marie Louise d’Autriche ; Arc de triomphe du Pont tournant, Côté de la place de la Concorde ; Décoration du Feu d’artifice tiré le 10 Juin 1810 pour la fête donnée par la ville de Paris ; Coupe d’un Salon exécuté dans la maison de Mr. M. ; Boutique de Mr. Theroulde, Md. Mercier, rue St Denis ; Façade du Café de flore aux Champs Elisées ; Façade d’une boutique d’Armurier, rue St Honoré ; Boutique de Mr. Phelippon Md. de tabac rue de Grenelle ; Magazin de Modes Boulevard Mont-martre ; …
It is very difficult to find a suite with some plates from this collection because they were published separately from 1806 to 1828. Most of the time they are showed like separate etchings.
The present collection is of special interest to the architect and interior designer.
Price: € 27 000
236 towns of the Renaissance finely contemporary hand-coloured
An exceptional copy of the Braun & Hogenberg
preserved in its contemporary uniform decorated bindings.
Cologne, 1575-1588.
BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Franz. Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
Cologne, G. von Kempen, 1575-1588.
4 volumes folio bound in contemporary full calf, spines decorated with gilt fleurons, later arms gilt-stamped in the center of covers. Contemporary uniform bindings.
1 preliminary. leaf of volume 4 bound in volume 3, pl. 43 of volume 1 and 25 of volume 4 come from another copy and were bound in the present copy a long time ago, slight browning and waterstaining, pl. 31 and 1 of volume 4 slightly stained, loss in the margin of pl. 54 of volume 2.
The earliest printed book showing all the Western and Mediterranean towns at the end of the Renaissance.
Koeman, II, B & H 1-4.
Volumes 2 and 4 are from the first edition, volumes 3 and 1 are from the second and the fifth Latin editions respectively.
Two other volumes were published few years later, between 1598 and 1617.
The illustration consists of 4 frontispieces and 236 engravings depicting 374 views of towns and plans.
All the engravings were finely contemporary hand-coloured.
The authors of this work are Georg Braun (1541-1622) from Cologne and the engraver Franz Hogenberg (1540-1590).
The “Civitates” were one of the major works from the last quarter of the 16th Century. The publication of this great work spread over 45 years and most of recorded copies are incomplete.
The present work describes towns of France, Italy, Spain and the Levant (volume 1), from the Netherlands, the Channel Islands, Central Europe and Russia (volume 2).
« The supreme value of this work lies in its survey of European towns and cities jus tat the time when draughtsmen were capable of conveying a wealth of information in a single portrayal ».
The earliest, the most beautiful and the most spectacular book of architecture from the Renaissance, dedicated to the representation of towns of Western and Mediterranean world, coloured at the time.
An exceptional copy, complete with all the engravings, preserved in its contemporary uniform decorated bindings, with the frontispieces and the 236 plates finely contemporary hand-coloured.
Provenance: ex libris and arms of the Tempsford Hall Library (from 19th Century).
Price: €275 000
Two superb illustrated festival books
Two superb illustrated festival books,
preserved in their contemporary binding in decorated vellum.
BOCH, Jean. Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis serenissimorum belgii Principum Alberti et Isabellae, Austriae Archiducum.
Antwerp, plantin, J. Moretus, 1602.
[Bound with :]
BOCH, Jean. Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis, spectaculorum et Ludorum, in adventu sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae, Ducis Burgundiae […].
Antwerp, Plantin, 1595.
2 works bound in 1 volume folio [375 x 250 mm]; I/ 500 pp. and (12) pp. including the 4 engraved titles, the 15 double-page plates, the 13 full-page plates and the 2 pp. of engraved music; II/ 174 pp. and (1) l. including the 2 engraved titles, the 2 pp. of music, the 4 double-page plates and the 29 full-page plates. Marginal restoration to 3 ff. without loss of text (including the printer’s mark leaf).
Bound in overlapped vellum, blind-stamped fillets on covers, central medallion stamped on the upper cover with the mention “Paulus Bernhardus Noribergensis 1599”, spine decorated with blind-stamped fleurons and stars. Foot of spine restored. Contemporary binding.
Two superb illustrated festival books bound together:
I/ First edition of one of the most beautiful festival books printed by at the Plantin Press.
Published in an edition of only 775 copies, this festival book depicts the entrance of Albert of Austria and of his wife Isabella of Spain in the Netherlands.
Ruggieri 1065 ; Landwehr 62 ; Vinet 621 ; Berlin cat. 2945 ; Cicognara 1408 ; Lipperheide Sd14.
The superb illustration comprises 4 engraved titles and 28 large plates by Pieter Van der Borcht (1545-1608), including 15 double-page engravings. They depict the sumptuous festivities organized on this occasion.
The first part of the work describes the festivities in Brussels, the second part, richly illustrated, relates the celebrations in Antwerp. Parts 3 and 4 deal with Ghent and Valenciennes.
II/ Rare first edition of one of the most beautiful baroque festival books.
Ruggieri 1064 ; Landwehr 50 ; Vinet 620 ; Berlin cat. 2944.
It shows the triumphant entrance of the archduke Ernest of Austria into Antwerp in June and July 1594.
The 33 baroque engravings illustrating this work show the architectural compositions (triumphal arches …), the processions, the illuminations produced on the occasion. They were engraved by Pieter Van Der Borcht after drawings by Cornelis II Floris, Joos de Momper and Maartin de Vos.
This book is a masterpiece of baroque illustration.
Two superb illustrated festival books bound together in contemporary decorated vellum.
Price: €19 500
Pompeian wall paintings
Pompeian wall paintings
depicted in 20 highly interesting superb chromolithographs.
CERILLO, Edoardo. Dipinti murali di Pompei. Medaglie Istituto d’Incoraggiamento di Napoli Esposizioni di Londra e Milano. Illustrazione per l’Arch. Ingre. Edoardo Cerillo. Versione francese pel cav. Giulio Cottrau.
Proprieta Cav. Uff. Pasquale d’Amelio, Napoli, n.d. [1886].
Large folio [630 x 445 mm], (1) l., ix pp., 20 pp. of text and 20 numbered chromolithographs. Some slight foxing. Preserved in sheets, as issued, in the editor’s portfolio.
A rare work dedicated to Pompeian wall paintings discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The text that comes with the plates is printed in two parallel columns, both in Italian and in French, and the Italian preface was written by Giulio de Petra.
The magnificent illustration consists of 20 large chromolithographs produced after the Italian architect Edoardo Cerillo and engraved by Vincenzo Loria (1850-1939). They represent: la Maison de la Princesse Marguerite, la Maison de Vedius Siricus, la Maison de la petite fontaine en mosaïque, la Maison d’Arianne ou des chapiteaux colorés, la Maison d’Arianne abandonnée, la Maison de Marc Lucrèce, la Maison de la paroi noire, la Maison du poète tragique, la Maison de Castor et Pollux, la Maison d’Orphée, la Panthéon, la Maison du notaire, la Maison de Salluste, la Maison d’Apollon, la Maison de Vedius Siricus, la Maison de la Reine d’Italie, la Maison d’Elpidius Sabinus, la Maison d’Adonis, la Maison du Decumanus Maior, les Thermes Stabianes.
“The 20 large plates finished last year by Richter & Co., of Naples, and issued by Cavalier Pasqualé d’Amelio, with Italian and French comments in parallel columns, bring into prominence the architectonic side of Pompeiian wall painting. The colors are very close to the originals during the first days of their recovery from the darkness of 2000 years, before the hot Neapolitan sun has bleached some of the pigments and induced a delicacy of tone which was not meant by the painters. The text is written by an architect, Edoardo Cerillo, who is not only well read in the great literature that deals with this famous little buried town, but has ideas of his own, and bold ones. He calls attention to the value of these compositions, invented to give variety and change to plain walls, not so much for their artistic beauty as for the lessons they contain concerning the architecture of Rome, Greece and the Orient. Hence the publication is of special interest to the architect and decorative artist; for to the one it shows the variety and grace of buildings now impossible to reconstruct from any other sources, and to the other the possibility of introducing bold and beautiful effects on blank walls by the use of colors. The 20 plates in chromo-lithography, together with ample descriptive and critical text, appears in large, loose sheets in a portfolio, cost $75 a set, and form a limited edition. If the publisher receives encouragement here the American edition will be 100 copies”. (The New York Times, 20 juin 1887).
No copy of this work is recorded in ABPC.
A precious handsome volume of special interest to the architect and decorative artist.
Price: € 19 500
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle
printed in July 1493, illustrated with 1809 woodcuts.
Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Chronicarum. Chronique de Nuremberg.
A la fin: “Consummatu autem duodecima mensis Iulii. Anno Salutis n’re. 1493. »
Nuremberg, 12 juillet 1493.
Large folio [452 x 305 mm], (20) preliminary leaves, 300 ff. and (5) ff. inserted between ff. 266 and 267 (without final blank). Complete with the 3 blank leaves CCLIX-CCLX-CCLXI; inner margin of the double-page map at the end of the volume reinforced.
Bound in 19th Century brown blind-stamped morocco, decorated ribbed spine.
First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, illustrated with 1809 woodcuts.
Fairfax Murray, II, 394 ; Hain 14508 ; Proctor 2084 ; B.M.C. II, 437; Muther 424; Schreiber 5203; Dogson, I, 228; Goff S 307; Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 533.
Most European towns are engraved on double or single pages: Jerusalem, Rome, Venice, Firenze, Augsburg, Vienna, Nuremberg (345 x 520 mm), Constantinople, Strasbourg, Salzburg, Ulm, Munich, Prague, Basel, Cracow, …
These famous woodcuts were produced by Wolgemut, Albrecht Dürer’s master from 1486 to 1490.
That’s one of the most spectacular incunable evidence about Fifteenth-Century Europe.
« The Chronicle and the Schatzbehalter are the two first important books with original illustrations published at Nuremberg and with the exception of Bredenbach, the earliest books printed in Germany of which the woodcuts can be assigned with certainty to a known draughtsman ». Dogson.
A charming wide-margined copy (452 mm high), complete with the 3 blank leaves that are often missing.
Price: €75 000
An attractive copy of the Bertius contemporary hand-coloured
An attractive copy entirely contemporary hand-coloured
and preserved in its original vellum.
BERTIUS, Petrus. Commentariorum rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres.
Amsterdam, apud Joannem Janssonium, 1616.
Oblong 4to [238 x 178 mm], (10) pp. including the frontispiece and the plate with the blazon, 732, (2).
Bound in contemporary limp vellum, flat spine with handwritten title. Some slight browning and foxing in margins at the beginning of the volume. Few marginal restorations.
First edition of this pocket atlas dedicated to the architecture, the maps and the views of towns of the German Empire at the very beginning of the 17th century.
Catalogue of the Avery Architectural Library, p. 80; Lipperheide, Katalog der Kostumbibliothek, 677; Chadenat, I, 16; Bachmann 15.
In addition to the frontispiece, the rich illustration consists of 26 engraved maps and 101 detailed views of towns. These plates are of the utmost interest as they give information not only about the architecture but also about the way of life of the populations from that time. Among the towns depicted here, we can find: Amsterdam, Strasburg, Basel, Bergen, Bern, Bonn, Colmar, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Heidelberg, Munich, Prague, Riga, Stockholm, Zurich, Vienna, Hamburg, Weimar, …
A fine copy of which the 127 plates were contemporary hand-coloured.
Price: €40 000